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Paroxysmal Hemidystonia as the Presenting Manifestation of Previously Undiagnosed Diabetes Mellitus Cover

Paroxysmal Hemidystonia as the Presenting Manifestation of Previously Undiagnosed Diabetes Mellitus

Open Access
|Mar 2026

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Video 1

Recurrent stereotyped right hemidystonic paroxysms involving the right side of the face, arm, and leg, occurring approximately twice per minute, each lasting around 5 seconds, with twisting movements and a brief sustained abnormal torsional posture, consistent with hemidystonia.

Figure 1

Structural MRI and 18F-FDG PET/CT findings. (A) Axial brain MRI shows a small chronic lacunar infarct in the left basal ganglia, minimal periventricular white-matter change, and age-appropriate cortical atrophy. (B) Brain 18F-FDG PET/CT shows mild asymmetric relative cerebellar hypometabolism, more evident in the left cerebellar hemisphere, with preserved uptake in the basal ganglia and cerebral cortex.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.1185 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 8, 2026
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Accepted on: Mar 12, 2026
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Published on: Mar 24, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Subhankar Chatterjee, Samya Sengupta, Ritwik Ghosh, Julián Benito-León, Souvik Dubey, published by Ubiquity Press
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